Road of the Flame-Stealer

Military action

The recently-crowned Queen Margaretha IV Bheuren of Aldernord launches a last-ditch counterattack on the Balthan armies, sending eight cavalry lances each three-hundred strong through a portal opened between Ket Azel and Ket Brezi. Though the portal collapses before all the soldiers cross it, resulting in the complete loss of two of the eight lances and substantial losses in two others, more than one and a half thousand heavy cavalry emerge from Ket Brezi and launch a surprise attack into the Lyskan Valley. The portal is opened twice more before it becomes too unstable to be operable, and a further twenty thousand soldiers make the crossing, albeit with heavily mounting casualties from the fluctuating passage.